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We all just need to learn to accept ourselves (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/funny

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (56 children)

To be fair, mutants are just an allegory for gay or otherwise non-heterosexual people. This scene makes a lot more sense when you factor this in.

[–] rwhitisissle 1 points 10 months ago

They're more meant to be an allegory for race, with the competing mutant organizations being the competing parts of the Civil Rights movement. Professor Xavier is MLK and Magneto is Malcolm X.

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